Racism and the Diversity Agenda

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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We've pulled together some our favourite conversations with our fantastic guests from Season 1 - this time around racism. We have really enjoyed looking back through our episodes but we're happy to announce that Season 2 will launch next week! The following fantastic guests feature in this episode (with time stamps): 00.53 Nicholas Gruen 09.05 Munira Mirza 20.00 Remi Adekoya 30.29 Brendan O'Neill Support TRIGGERnometry: https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=caGqe03cYmIRHfqisleIS3gyA-cTsCvTzfkKrEsf376WU76uIOIw9gxRMltLWxDqahloCm&fromUL=true&country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB Find us on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Trigonometry, I'm Francis Foster.
0:07.0	This is a show for you if you're bored of people arguing on the internet over subjects they know nothing about.
0:16.0	At trigonometry, we don't pretend to be the experts. We ask the experts.
0:21.0	Our fantastic expert guest this week is the former Deputy Mayor of London for Education
0:25.1	and Culture who now works in the arts.
0:27.1	Minera Merza, welcome to Trigonometry.
0:29.5	Is a journalist and a researcher at Sheffield University, Remy Adikoy, welcome to Trigonometry.
0:35.0	Thanks for having me.
0:36.0	My amazing expert guest this week is Brendan O'Neill, who's the editor of Spiked Online.
0:40.0	Brendan, welcome to Trigonometry.
0:42.0	Thank you very much. He's an Australian economist, the CEO of
0:45.3	lateral economics and the self-styled general pontificator. Nicholas Grown, welcome to Chigonometry. is lot about is the culture wars and all this kind of stuff. Where are you guys with that?
1:04.0	Well I think we were in a very good place in the 80s and 90s where we led the world in economic
1:11.2	policy and we had a government. In fact there was a bipartisan
1:16.5	consensus on things like race, gender and so on and that broke down as you could you if you were looking to blame the
1:27.1	Labour party you would blame Paul Keating because he was who was the prime
1:30.7	minister from minister from 1991 to 1996 and he was very divisive but he was
1:39.1	still part of the bipartisan consensus which didn't go after Culture Wars.
1:45.7	But then on the change of Baton to John Howard as Prime Minister, he famously was very
1:52.3	insightful in revving up what seems to have been
1:56.1	latent in the Australian psyche which is that if if white Rhodesian farmers were
2:01.5	boat people floating off our coast I'm sure we would have
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